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    How Do You Punish a Machine?

    How Do You Punish a Machine?

    (And why would you need to?)

    By Graham Brown | November 21, 2024

    Hannah Martian on the Road from Baseball Broadcaster to Thriller Author

    Hannah Martian on the Road from Baseball Broadcaster to Thriller Author

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    Finding the Gothic in Arthurian Legends

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    By Sarah Jost | November 20, 2024

    On Coming of Age in an Era of Feminist Awakenings and Roaming Serial Killers

    On Coming of Age in an Era of Feminist Awakenings and Roaming Serial Killers

    "Thirty-seven years on, I’ve written a novel revisiting the mix of terror and fury I felt as a young woman."

    By Ajay Close | November 19, 2024

    The Outsized Impact of George Cukor's

    The Outsized Impact of George Cukor's "Gaslight"

    The movie masterpiece spawned a psychological analysis and a host of crime novels

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    License to Thrill: The Real and the Unreal in Spy Fiction

    License to Thrill: The Real and the Unreal in Spy Fiction

    Michael Idov on the spy novelist's sleight of hand tricks.

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    Gullion and the Bullshit of Mythology

    Gullion and the Bullshit of Mythology

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    From Managing a Golf Course to Writing Mysteries: One Author's Journey

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    The Life and Times of Gaston Means, one of the Greatest Rogues in American History

    The Life and Times of Gaston Means, one of the Greatest Rogues in American History

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